By Taylor Boyd As warmer spring weather approaches, Bernie, the eastern box turtle who serves as animal ambassador at Fairy ...

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...

Turtles are not easy pets to keep. They are long-lived and have a variety of very important habitat and diet requirements. For box turtle Rockalina, her life for the past half century has been a ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

It took 48 years for Rockalina to get a taste of earthworm. The eastern box turtle had lived since 1977 inside a New York home, never once venturing outside. Her nails curled into her feet, her mouth ...

COULD MOVE IN AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR. A MISSING TURTLE HAS BEEN RETURNED TO THE LOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER IN A FACEBOOK POST, THE NONPROFIT ANNOUNCED CHOCOLATE THE BOX TURTLE, IS BACK HOME AFTER TWO ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants ...